Hyderabad, August 03: Students of the Vasavi College of Engineering on Monday staged a protest near the college demanding action against the principal, holding him responsible for the death of a civil engineering student. The student had been electrocuted while performing survey practicals a few days back.
Mohd Mujeebuddin, a third-year student was doing survey work outside the campus with a group of students on July 28. He was holding a levelling staff made of aluminium which got in contact with high-tension wires passing over the ground and got electrocuted. Mujeebuddin was the only son of Wahaduddin, who is also a civil engineer presently working in Riyadh.
Hundreds of students along with parents took out a rally demanding action against the principal Chengal Raju and in-charge of the survey department Ramana Reddy. “They are responsible for his death and their services should be terminated with immediate effect,” Mujeebuddin’s cousin brother Abdul Ahad told Express.
“Practicals are supposed to be conducted in the college premises but the management took students to a nearby hillock where high-tension wires are passing by. The students were made to survey the land without proper supervision,” Abdul Ahad alleged.
“We have been opposing the conducting of practicals outside the premises but the management did not heed our requests leading to the death of Mujeebuddin,’’ a third-year engineering student Karthik said.
Students and parents later met the management which said a committee had been formed to look into the issue and action would be taken after it gives its report.
Though the police registered a case under Section 304A (negligence causing death) against the management, no arrests have been made yet. Some parents also alleged that the police had not taken any action even after six days. “We are still investigating the case,” Golconda police sub-inspector Md Yusuf said.
–Agencies